Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
A whip for the horse,.... One that is dull of going, or refractory and wants breaking;
a bridle for the ass; not to curb and restrain it from going too fist, asses being generally dull; but to…
Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714
Matthew Henry
Here, 1. Wicked men are compared to the horse and the ass, so brutish are they, so unreasonable, so unruly, and not to be governed but by force or fear, so low has sin sunk men, so much below…
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